Who’s Afraid of East-West Dialogue? – PASOS conference brings together top think-tank analysts and international diplomats in Berlin, 5 November 2010

PASOS international conference will focus on soft and hard power challenges to EU and US democracy and development agendas, Euro-Atlantic security, energy policy, and new forms of diplomacy to solve entrenched disputes. The conference will also host the announcement of the first-ever PASOS Think-Tank Award.

Four new policy briefs will be launched at Who’s Afraid of East-West Dialogue?, a PASOS international conference that will bring together policymakers and independent analysts in Berlin on Friday 5 November 2010 to focus on the challenges – soft and hard power – to EU and US democracy and development agendas, as well as threats and opportunities facing policymakers in the areas of Euro-Atlantic security, energy policy, and new forms of diplomacy to solve entrenched disputes.

Models of development practised by a range of countries – Russia, EU, China, US, Turkey – will be tackled, and four panels looking at different challenges for East-West dialogue will be addressed by four specially commissioned policy briefs to be debated by leading diplomats and think-tank analysts.

The conference, held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the PASOS network of more than 40 think-tanks spanning 27 countries in Europe and Central Asia, will also host the announcement of the first-ever PASOS Think-Tank Award. The winner will be selected by a jury of five inernational experts in policymaking, with a wide range of experiecne in both the think-tank community and as policymakers in government.